Postcards From The Road.

Privacy Policy

Who we are

Jen from Africa is a travel blog consisting of my personal stories and photographs from my travels.

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Contact forms

Information that you voluntarily submit to the website. We may collect personal information from you such as your name or email address. For example, you may voluntarily submit information to the Website by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, or submitting a contact form.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Google Analytics

This service tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Mail Chimp

This service is used for delivery of email updates and newsletters. We store your name and email address for purposes of delivering such communications.At this time, your personal information is not shared with any other third-party applications. This list may be amended from time to time in the Website’s sole discretion. Mail Chimps privacy policy is available at https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/#3._Privacy_for_Contacts

How your information may be used

We may use the information collected in the following
ways:

To operate and
maintain the Website;

To send you
promotional information, such as newsletters. Each email promotion will provide
information on how to opt-out of future mailings;

To send you
administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation
emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts;

To respond to your
comments or inquiries;

To provide you with
user support;

To track and measure
advertising on the Website;

To protect,
investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.

Who we share your data with

Except when required by law, we will not sell,
distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information
without your consent; however, we may disclose or transfer personal information
collected through the Website to third parties who acquire all or a portion of
our business, which may be the result of a merger, consolidation, or purchase
of all or a portion of our assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or
reorganization proceeding brought by or against us.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Our contact information

GDPR Rights

If you are within the
European Union, you are entitled to certain information and have certain rights
under the General Data Protection Regulation. Those rights include:

Opt-out – You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also notify us at jen@jenfrom.africa to be removed from our mailing list.

Access – You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to jen@jenfrom.africa

Amend – You may contact us at jen@jenfrom.africa to amend or update your personal information.

Forget – You may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to jen@jenfrom.africa

We will retain any
information you choose to provide to us until the earlier of: (a) you asking us
to delete the information, (b) our decision to cease using our existing data
providers, or (c) we decide that the value in retaining the data is outweighed
by the costs of retaining it.

About Me

Addicted to Travel

I have a travel habit! I work as a freelance film and TV producer to fund my travels with my enormously tolerant husband, Dave. Oh, and I am a certified coffee snob. Seriously, I never travel anywhere without my own coffee and a decent plunger.